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Well, I'm struggling with this myself. Should we be cynical because the world around us has been cynical historically? I prefer not to be cynical - to be blunt I don't mean to beli…

Teachers sare another example. I think many of us actually want to work for a bigger cause. Its just that the system is so to say rigged so that your attention flows in the directi…

This is interesting. How does AI stuff fit in this list? All AI stuff uses data that has been gathered without conscious consent and the resulting models may be used in malicious w…

What kind of international law can we expect in the future? A law that is constantly broken by various maleficent actors? Of course we've heard them complain that the current order…

Depending on angle we could see different dumb things in the pandemic. I'm not sure which specific dumb thing you're referring to. Intelligence is, as I see it, distributed both in…

We've been made accustomed to fast feedback. Technology moves rapidly and therefore gives us quick feedback (dopamine). Peace processes move slowly and therefore gives less dopamin…

These days noone seems to have peace to the world as a dream and driving force. I grew up in the spirit that we should try to achieve peace everywhere. Nowadays when people think a…

New innovations - gives you PTSD every day. Computeres and technology used to be fun. It hasn't been for years. We're building ourselves a horrible future. If it wasn't my main inc…

Some ten years ago I relalized that the tech industry has little regard for what the socetietal consequences of tech developments will be. Since then work has not been fun in the s…

...and of course, at the end of the article, the author offers to sell some kind of project assessment. My assessment is that it is not money that will buy greatness. You need to h…

Rant: Sooner or later some person will use all the data to something no good. I predicted some 8 years ago that criminals would start using encryption in the same way military does…

Yes, in my opinion this study is too small and uses a too narrow sample of the population to matter. Not much to write about really

I remember reading about Occam around 1987-89 in an Atari ST World magazine. Atari hade just announced the Transputer and the article introduced Occam as a way to program its paral…

I started using the Internet some 25 years ago. Maybe things then were more idealist? I was younger then of course and perhaps more idealist by nature? Nowadays I'm afraid that the…

Imagine putting RMS (Richard Stallman) in China. What do you think the authorities would think of him? Will software in China ever be free as in the definition made by Free Softwar…

I think this story is not as much a story about a software bug as it is a story about off hand accident management. If AECL had earlier been more humble and determined to find the …

Yes, it seems that this hospital staff were the testers that AECL should have had themselves. A great tester is curious, imaginative, dedicated, patient and worth a good salary.

They might already have done that: From Sailfish homepage " Our focus is in licensing the OS to be used in governmental and corporate environments, and Sailfish OS is already used …

Isn't any big enough state or corporation with too little transparency a threat to individual freedom? Is China combing opaque big tech with repressive state? Is that scary? Is Ama…

Don't get me wrong, but if whole classes of errors, can be avoided by not choosing C++, why should I choose to use it?

I remember. I was in my early teens when he was murdered. I did not like his speaking style. It felt too elitist; distanciated / detached.

One of the theories about who shot him (there are many https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme ) points to South Africa. There is also a theory that South Afric…

Word. I very much miss a serious ethical discussion in the tech crowd that I see myself as part of, being a developer. I think we should admit that we are part of a technocracy. If…

Another piece of context, the article says that the issue was resolved together with Huawei. Why then make a publicly available article about it naming the company? Why not just pa…